Sept 16 (Reuters) - A budget airliner crashed while trying to land in driving rain on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Sunday, killing at least 66 people, officials said.

Here is a chronology of recent major airline disasters:

- May 3, 2006: All 113 passengers and crew are killed when an Airbus A-320 operated by the Armenian airline Armavia crashes into the Black Sea while trying to land in bad weather.

- July 9: A Russian Airbus A-310 run by Sibir airlines carrying 195 passengers and eight crew, crashes during a domestic flight to Siberia, killing 122.

- Aug. 22: A Russian Tu-154 operated by Pulkovo Airlines crashes 30 miles (48 km) north of the east Ukrainian town of Donetsk, killing all 170 passengers and crew.

- Sept. 1: Twenty-eight of 148 people aboard an Iranian airliner are killed when the plane catches fire after a tyre blew out while landing in the city of Mashhad.

- Sept. 29: One hundred and fifty-four people are killed when a Boeing 737-800 operated by the low-cost Gol airline crashes in the Amazon rain forest in Brazil's worst plane disaster.

- Jan. 1, 2007: An Indonesian Boeing 737-400 operated by budget carrier Adam Air disappeared from radar screens during a flight from Java to Sulawesi islands. Wreckage was located at sea 10 days later and it now appears that all 102 aboard were killed.

- May 5, 2007 - All 114 people on board a Kenya Airways Boeing 737 were believed killed when the plane crashed in torrential rain after takeoff from Douala in Cameroon en route to Nairobi.

- July 17, 2007 - A Brazilian TAM passenger plane crashes into buildings when trying to land in Sao Paulo, killing 199 people aboard and on the ground.

- Sept. 16, 2007 - One-Two-Go, a budget Thai airliner carrying 123 passengers and several crew crashes on landing at the resort island of Phuket.

Source: Reuters

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